COMPUPHONIC
Born in 1983 in Liège, Belgium, Maxime Firket grew up surrounded by music. He studied music theory and classical music at the Academy and did not choose the easy route by opting to study the cello. "A demanding and monodic instrument which forces you to find the right sound and the right note to make yourself heard. My cello background is still useful to me today." As an adolescent, he dreamt of playing in a rock group, but also discovered Kraftwerk, Depeche Mode, Front 242 and Detroit techno. After having created his own studio and put together a few mixes on a Roland Compuphonic synthesiser (yes, that’s where the name comes from...), Maxime soon found himself behind the decks at Dirty Dancing nights in Brussels and recorded his first tracks for Dirty Dancing Recordings. In 2006, his reputation exploded on the dance floor with the groovy "Emotion", produced in collaboration with Tiga and released on his label ‘Turbo Recordings’.
Compuphonic’s dedication and elaborateness delivers spontaneous productions of hedonistic house. Natural, open to large spaces, ambitious but always accessible. Handling music as the art form it is. Alternating complicated with simple pieces, electronic with organic, light with dark, ease with emotional, celebration with pondering. Telling a different, but in its way even more exciting new tale, time and time again.
His underground hit “Sunset” ft Marques Toliver reached over 10 000 000 views (and counting) on YouTube and got support on BBC Radio 1 by Annie Mac, Pete Tong, Rob Da Bank and key media / blogs.
More recently his releases ’Radio Atlantis’ and ‘The Sun Does Rise’ on Berlin’s super label Exploited Records have picked up great support by radio stations and bloggers worldwide and after playing shows at Pukkelpop, Dour Festival, Eurosonic, SXSW, Sonar Festival, Monegros,, he's set to become one of Europe's best known too.
His new EP “My Love” is expected mid November on Exploited Records. In the meantime we invite you to have a listen to his popular “Tales” (mixtape) episodes on Soundcloud.
More info:
https://soundcloud.com/compuphonic-1
https://twitter.com/compuphonicmax
https://www.facebook.com/compuphonicmax
https://www.instagram.com/compuphonicmax
https://www.youtube.com/user/UnionMatchMusic
DISCOGRAPHY
Compuphonic - Les Environs Part One - Dirty Dancing Recordings
Compuphonic - Les Environs Part Two - Dirty Dancing Recordings
Compuphonic - Placid Corporation - Dirty Dancing Recordings
Compuphonic & Kolombo - Emotion EP - Turbo
Compuphonic - Senses Under Attack ?(12") Play Out!
Compuphonic & Spirit Catcher - Mastermind / Dream Machine - 20:20 Vision
Compuphonic - Analog Sparkles EP - Parquet Recordings
Compuphonic - Spacetime Continuum EP - Parquet Recordings
Compuphonic - Touchwood EP - Klimaks
Compuphonic - Sunset - Get Physical
Compuphonic - Radio Atlantis - Exploited
Compuphonic - O Cypres – Exploited
Compuphonic – My Love EP - Exploited
REMIXES
Petula Clark - Cut Me Copy (Compuphonic remix) - white
The Subs - Trapped (Compuphonic remix)
Chrystal Fighters - Plage (Compuphonic remix)
Martin Solveig - Give it to Me (Compuphonic remix)
Freeform Five ft Roisin Murphy - Leviathan (Compuphonic remix)
Joel Compass - Fucked Up (Compuphonic remix)
Him_Self_Her - Gone Too Long (Compuphonic remix)
Arsenal - Melvin (Compuphonic remix)